The story "Burn, burn clearly" from the story "The last bow" Village childhood is always happy. "We played in the war, and in bast shoes, and in robber Cossacks. And they made and searched for treasures. Here the most interesting thing was to come up with encrypted notes, according to which the treasure had to be found."hellip;»– recalls her childhood in Oatmeal, university teacher, Candidate of Technical Sciences Galina Alexandrovna Betekhtina. Interesting! A completely different, already post-war generation of Ovsyan children, and the game of the same bast shoes was loved at the time of Astafiev's childhood, and remained so even in the 60s! And what injustice and even meanness had to be faced during children's games, when it came to cheating, to losing. What bitter tears I had to cry from injustice, from an unquenchable desire to finish the game. But when you remember your childhood, it brightens your soul. "Now I know," the writer sums up, in the story "Burn, burn clearly", "the happiest games"; underplayed, the purest love – unloved, the best songs – underplayed…» And so I want to finish them!
